Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:1185041243.323915.161230 > @x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com: > >> On Jul 21, 7:48 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> [snip...] >> >> >>>From the 2.6 PEP #361 (looks like dict.has_key is deprecated) >> Python 3.0 compatability: ['compatibility'-->someone should use a >> spell-checker for 'official' releases] >> - warnings were added for the following builtins which no >> longer exist in 3.0: >> apply, callable, coerce, dict.has_key, execfile, reduce, >> reload >> > > I see... what that document doesn't describe is the alternatives to be > used. And I see in that list a couple of functions that are probably used a > lot nowadays (callable, reduce, etc.).
callable and reduce are rarely used, at least in code I've seen. I would agree there will be a large number of programs that contain one or two calls to these functions, though. Certainly has_key will be the most common of those listed above (but trivial to fix). apply will be common in old code from the time of Python 1.5.2. execfile is perhaps more common that callable (?) but again is really a "maybe 1 call in a big program" sort of thing. Anybody using coerce or reload deserves to lose ;-) John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
